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The Ecobnb team

Simone Riccardi

Social entrepreneur, founder of Ecobnb. Simone got a PhD degree on User Generated Cities at the Parma’s Department of Engineering and Architecture. He won a Fulbright BEST fellowship he spent at UCLA studying business and management with focus on entrepreneurship. He has been founder of the solidarity purchasing group “GAStronauti” and president of the Cultural Association “The invisible cities” (Le Città Invisibili). He’s collaborating with social and voluntary associations for improving awareness about Climate Change and Earth’s fragility.

Role: CEO, IT project manager and customer service.

The quote I love: The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step (Lao Tzu).

Contacts: simone@ecobnb.com – Skype: turboyz

Silvia Ombellini

Architect with the passion of travel. She holds a Ph.D. in sustainable architecture and she worked for several years in the field of urban planning and university education. After the birth of her second son, she decided to work full time at ViaggiVerdi – Ecobnb, an adventure to change the way we travel, making it more respectful of the environment, places and people living there. With “ViaggiVerdi” she won the Spinner2013 research program and moved for a year in California, where he studied User Experience Design at UCLA. She is co-founder of Ecobnb, and together with Simone Riccardi she coordinated the European Project EcoDots, to develop the sustainable tourism in Europe.

Role: COO, Content Manager and Ux designer

The quote I love: Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life (Confucius).

Contacts: silvia@ecobnb.com – Skype: silvia.ombellini

Carla Soffritti

For Carla to travel is like breathing: a natural necessity. But traveling she realized how much this planet is fragile. So she decided to devote herself in every moment to protect our Earth “borrowed from our children.” When she does not travel, she is in a woodland 15 km from Parma in an ecological home where she lives with her family and she works on her projects: journalism (she has been enrolled since 1991), ella.it (an online and offline press office), Ecobnb, “Il Richiamo del Bosco” eco-bnb and other green ideas.

Role: Press Office

Dream: That the eco-friendly trip becomes a consolidated habit. As it is today, many recycle paper.